“There was no conspiracy to keep the Bible from the people. The common people simply couldnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t afford one, even if they could read.”

Precisely. But to go back even further than the Douay-Rheims, there were incomplete English (Anglo-Saxon) vernacular Bibles as early as the 600s. It’s a pretty modern anti-Catholic conspiracy theory that has some kind of “power” being wielded over the scripture-deprived masses.

And what is it about Fundy song parodies that makes them impossible to sit through? I only got through about two minutes of that poor old guy HoleyHands linked us to.

Not only the Douay-Rheims but the Bishop’s Bible of 1568 and the Great Bible of 1538 which were authorized translations by the Anglican church. I will be kind and assume that this is largely ignorance and not sectarian revisionism.